Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-22

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I" - afle:sed IN the Lissis Block ver
horss III; .u Lney ~ bsep arrested in
1ouse oI1lI lame. They al pleadeI .,,;i.s
once caught q woman In III su,I.y
COUSIN OF mine in Lixsis Bloek. 7 h.,.
2 other disturbances beside. no."
cefs. 1 left police force because I vas AZ
missed.> Never knew what Tor. Char.ss =
corruption we're brought apainst re h,,,
not proved. 1t was in Connection -;+b !.
case Of ~fornication. I knew drunken 49,
night. "'"os' every
By Nj: Napton: 1saw women .t.nd;,.
10 me window OF the Lissie Block when thu
streets were crowded.
! By Mr.. Campbell: Ja..,. r,.....
roomed at Lissie Block a lone timel sosnel
times Red wal With her and eomet;m..
Harry. 1don't know what time Jeas;e
Grant was there. " s''"
MI. Mr: weinicke, messenger for American
Uissr1ct Company, testified to hav.
log carried messaRes for actors. nc.
dresses and beer jerkers in the Lissic Block.
ana went there with Ledford when the lat.
ter arrested q counterfeiter.
mr.. ~Stambeaux: Was bartender at Co.
mique IN January, 1885. and before. Sent
many drinks to the Liszie Block. mostly to
actresses. Beer jerkers get q percentage on
their Gales Of liquor in the boxes. They
ooh men who bought drinks to their
roome, Don't knO whether. the men
stayed all night. The sucker racket was
not played in connection with the Lissis
Block. The sucker racket IL where a girl
gets q man in . box who will spend money
on drinks. She calls him a sucker.
Aleck Clark or MeGlew. I lived here in
January 1885. I was generally working
around town and then for Richie & Cor.
don as messenger boy. I did not have
much business relations with the Grand
Ceotral but was messenger boy at the Lis.
Sic Block. nine or ten weeks and before. In
January 1885 I carried drinks, to the per-
formers at the Comique and messages to
the Lissie Block. The ladies which was
performers l waited on very particular
" and understood they all professed to be
ladies. Oh, we'll. l would 60 in there three
or Tour times q day. They was up all
night you see unless they were sick. OF
course il l Wal sent there during the night.
l would 60 and it might be dark when
they would go home you know. l have
tiers. don't keep no recollection OF time
that has past, I am always forward, but l
l remember the ladies very well. Misses
Clayton paid for the drinks. and il gentle.
men were in they paid for them. There
would he gentlemen sometimes of course,
just as you and ! are sitting here. I didn't
notice particularly at nights. l would shut
eyes. l seen nothing scandalising. O.
course you know these women undress be-
fore anybody most-not always before me
Il would shut my eyes. I never seen no
men urdressed in the ladies rooms. have
seen them sit there and call for drinks.
I he women would have on q skirt or loose
sack or Mother Hubbard perhaps. They
always had on a dress of some kind: oh.
certainly; never naked. / have seen man
and woman occupying the SANE bed. They
we're the performers at the Comique. l
guess they were married; they always
claimed TO be. OF cours we can't tell all
these things without We see q certificate. l
didn't gee any certificate with them. !
don't know whether any OF these girls had
what they called q lover. Tney would
h snd.' r rhe% ba res' had Su'e some ,o '1ss
there that had roomsr right ocross the hall.
I don't reco .lect very we'll you see. Those
that used to liv- together there are gone
that's done away with. That was in the
start OF the house. Mr.. Ziegentuss had
Miss frankie Howard up there; and that
was about all. Miss Florence CLAYTON and
Miss jennie Kimball slept together. She
didn't have q lover there-yer, l believeshe
don't like to tell such things az that.
Well, Miss Florence Clayton did have a
up there prior to January l, 1886.
that she was in the habit OF sleeping with.
I was tending there at the time, Agnes
had one, 90. Jennie KiD,ball
have none-she had her husband. !
know ~hether she received any coim-
paDy; I never catched anyone in her ROOF
I don't think Of any others at present. /
Ollie Suffer. She didn'r have a
ut the time. She had one before she
went away about eight weeks ago. Her
ma me was LOttie West. She did
have ore before she shook him. That as
January q year ago-a year aud a
half ago. 1 don't tn nix most Of those
women up there bad lovers and stayed
with them-people comes here married.
know whether men stayed with them
all night ar not. When l would 60 in the
morning there was sobody there. l left
them there, sit ing. talking. l don't think
Ida Quinn had a lover there. There night
be men 20 t. SEE her. She didn't stay very
long-sirr WAS ordered out 1T the house.
She would 60 to theatre until late ut nig,t.
/ recOllect Jessie Forester. Jessie did bave
/, lover all the time.
Court adjourned.